MEET THEA GAHR

Thea Gahr is a bilingual artist and educator intent on connecting people to their highest creative potential through the small and dedicated acts of printmaking and sewing. She has been an industrial stitcher for over 12 years and a production stitcher for 18. With a strong commitment to social and environmental justice, she is a member of Justseeds Artist Cooperative as well as a part of the ECPM68, an autonomous (non-governmental and self-directed) school in Mexico City. Her love for printmaking grew through the inherent tendencies of the medium, its precision and craft, its nearly limitless creative possibilities, the communal nature of print workshops, and its incredible global history of being at the forefront of massive social change for the betterment of life of earth. Home is both and always Oregon and Mexico, where the heart extends to the land and many of it's very loved residents. Believing that spirits need to be free, she is also an enthusiastic cyclist, aerialist, and lover of complex land and water ecologies.